Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2022.3228281
Saurabh S. Sawant;Zhi Yao;Revathi Jambunathan;Andrew Nonaka
Modeling and characterization of electromagnetic wave interactions with microelectronic devices to derive network parameters has been a widely used practice in the electronic industry. However, as these devices become increasingly miniaturized with finer-scale geometric features, computational tools must make use of manycore/GPU architectures to efficiently resolve length and time scales of interest. This has been the focus of our open-source solver, ARTEMIS (Adaptive mesh Refinement Time-domain ElectrodynaMIcs Solver), which is performant on modern GPU-based supercomputing architectures while being amenable to additional physics coupling. This work demonstrates its use for characterizing network parameters of transmission lines using established techniques. A rigorous verification and validation of the workflow is carried out, followed by its application for analyzing a transmission line on a CMOS chip designed for a photon-detector application. Simulations are performed for millions of timesteps on state-of-the-art GPU resources to resolve nanoscale features at gigahertz frequencies. The network parameters are used to obtain phase delay and characteristic impedance that serve as inputs to SPICE models. The code is demonstrated to exhibit ideal weak scaling efficiency up to 1024 GPUs and 84% efficiency for 2048 GPUs, which underscores its use for network analysis of larger, more complex circuit devices in the future.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2022.3222529
S. R. Naga Praneeth;Bhim Singh
When dealing with electromechanical system modelling, numerical challenges are inevitable. Especially when working with moving conductor problems, such as rotational or linear motors, special care needs to be taken for the air-gap region. Railguns air region is one more addition to this modelling problem. The air region necessitates either remeshing or a custom mesh topology. In addition, the production of air mesh for conductors with complicated shapes has its own difficulties. The air mesh requirement may be reduced by using the finite element-boundary element (FE-BE) technique. Boundary elements for air mesh and finite elements for conductors allow for the creation of models with moving conductors and makes model production easier and quicker. This paper investigates the changes observed in the railgun's electrical and mechanical parameters through the finite element-boundary element simulation approach when the geometry of the augmentation rails in a railgun is changed. Tapering and filleting are two geometry changes implemented on the augmenting rails of an electromagnetic railgun. Designed railgun variants are investigated using LS-Dyna software. A new formulation for breech voltage in augmented electromagnetic railguns is derived to calculate barrel efficiency. Four configurations of augmented electromagnetic railguns are analyzed, emphasizing force profile, inductance gradient, and motional-emf ( $iL^{prime }v$